Top pick: #8 (ONE TOUGH BELLE) - Veteran mare returns from yet another freshening and she'll be making her first start for trainer Richard Dutrow Jr., a 29% winning angle. She's fired fresh in the past and is working sharp at Monmouth for this. The top pick.
2nd pick: #7 (Boss Tiffany) - Another veteran and she'll be dropping into a straight claimer again after "tussling" with some very tough fields in a trio of recent starter hdcps. She's undefeated on this course (three for three), and those three scores are more than the rest of the field combined (2). Big danger.
3rd pick: #1 (Chippewa Court) - Claimed on August 19 by trainer Dave Jacobson for $16,000, she finished second last out at the Meadowlands running for $22K, her first start since the claim. Has good positional speed, draws the rail, and Dominguez is signed-on.